6 Pages Tagged “Debian”
Reviews
- Debian Linux ★★★★⯪ My second choice distro for both desktop and servers. More reliable than Ubuntu, more stable than Fedora, easier to install than Arch, though a bit slower to update. Bigger than Alpine, but uses the more typical glibc.
- Gopher (UMN Terminal Client) ★★★★☆ Debian still ships the original terminal-based Gopher client, updated occasionally for compatibility. It’s really user-friendly and thorough.
Tech Tips
- Compiling Classic UMN Gopher on Modern Linux Debian still ships with the original terminal Gopher client. It doesn’t compile out of the box on other distros, but so far I’ve figured out how to build it on Fedora and Arch with a CFLAGS change.
- Minimal User Setup for Debian Cloud The quickest way to set up a sudo-capable user on a Debian cloud (or nocloud) image with useradd, usermod and the sudo group.
- Seeking the Perfect Balance for BOINCing After a brief stint at distributed computing early in the pandemic, I came back first to Folding@Home, then BOINC, with the goal of only using spare power to help out with research.
Blog Posts
- Dreamwidth and Debian
Whenever I visit a Dreamwidth journal and leave it open in a tab, I always find myself wondering why I was looking at the Debian website. For obvious reasons.